Over the past ten years, I have spoken on podcasts and at numerous venues, including universities, literary events, and conferences. I’ve also curated evenings of performance, literature and art. Here’s what two participants had to say:

“Thank you! Very engaging and helpful. Your authenticity and transparency is greatly appreciated.” —Training attendee
“Thank you for orchestrating alchemy through true leadership and vision.” —Raffi Wartanian
If you’d like to bring me to your campus or community — or host a virtual event, discussion, or reading — get in touch! Some presentation highlights are below: 
Upcoming
Tanya in white button-down shirt in front of a microphone holding a piece of paper, reading a poem on a black stage, portraits of Dalai Lama, Gandhi, and MLK behind her
Photo: Sunu Chandy

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2023
2019
  • 8/17: I curated a night of Soviet Diaspora poetry here in DC, and it was amaaazing. Info @ Rhizome.
  • 4/15: I taught two classes on the personal essay at Crossroads School for the Arts & Sciences, the high school I attended! Thank you 30-year teaching veteran Nika Cavat for having me.
  • 4/16: I was on an alumni panel for the 10-year anniversary of the U.C. Santa Barbara Feminist Studies Department.
  • 4/27: At the University of Pennsylvania, I read at “Poetry of the Soviet Diaspora.”
2018
  • 6/17: I was the featured poet, alongside Deborah Miranda, for Split This Rock’s Sunday Kind of Love. Amazing night, lovely review here.
  • 5/5: I was a featured performer at Dictionary of Marx: A Multimedia Birthday Anniversary, where I shared an original piece about the 80th anniversary of my great-grandmother’s murder.
  • 4/20: I joined Lynn Melnick, Chet’la Sebree, Marina Blitshteyn, and Cathy Linh Che for a panel at Split This Rock entitled “Poetics in the Wake of Sexual, Gendered, and Inherited Violence.”
2017
  • 10/19: I was a panelist at a conference hosted by the The University of Arizona Poetry Center. More information on the panel, entitled “Post Traumatic Lit Disorder: Writing as Performance Against Silence,” is here.
  • 9/19: Read at The Inner Loop reading series in DC, as one of the featured readers and participants in the Woodlawn/Arcadia Residency program.
  • 4/15: Read with the poet Sarah Lawson at PorchFest.
2016
  • 5/18: Read my poetry at Ignition, a one-night gathering of queer poets prior to Capturing Fire, a festival featuring poets and artists from North America and The UK. Details here!
  • 4/16: I was on a panel about “Translation Ethics in the Digital World” at the Split This Rock Poetry Festival. Details here.
  • 3/19: With my Bellwether Education Partners colleague Kaitlin Pennington, I co-led a training for aspiring education writers. Details here.
2015
  • 3/6: I joined other alumni of the Columbia University graduate writing program to talk about “Life After the MFA.”
  • 3/5: I read at KGB Bar in New York City as part of the Columbia Selects series. More here.
2014
  • 10/11: I was a featured reader at my favorite series, the Brooklyn Ladies Text-Based Salon (BLT Salon). More details here.
  • 9/22: I was a guest on The Agenda, a Sirius XM radio news show. More information here.
  • 8/19: I read at The Inner Loop, a reading series in Washington, D.C. More details here.
  • 5/4: Featured reader at IGNITION. I was described as a “multi-genre wonder translator professor poet,” so that was fun. It was a great event — more info on Facebook here.
2013
  • 12/15: Reader at PERFORMETRY (organized by”Writers on the Green Line”). Followed by an open mic! Bloombars in Washington, DC.
  • 10/17: Participant in “Bilingual Readings” at the American Literary Translators Association annual conference (Bloomington, IN). More information here.
  • 2/23: Reading at Brooklyn Ladies Text-Based Salon (BLT). More information on the BLT here!
2012
  • 08/02: Reading for the launch of The Literary Review‘s newest issue. I read alongside poets Cindy Cruz and Geoffrey Nutter and fiction writer Martha Witt. Unnameable Books in Brooklyn, NY. The Outlet reviewed this reading here.
  • 2/11: Read at women’s text-based salon, monthly event hosted by poet-translator Montana Ray. Brooklyn, NY.
2011
  • 6/23: Read at the “Summer Fun With Genre” series at Blue Angel Wines in Brooklyn, NY.
  • 3/18: Featured competitor (representing LitDrift.com) at Piethos III, a literary competition hosted by Slice Magazine. Brooklyn, NY.
  • 2/28: Read  at LTAC literary translation reading series. New York, NY.
2010
  • 9/14: Featured reader at Sideshow Queer Literary Carnival. New York, NY. Other readers included Melissa Febos (Whip Smart) and Rachel Simon (Theory of Orange). Photos here. (Cheryl B., the co-MC of Sideshow, passed away. She was a delightful writer and an amazing member of the queer literary community. More about her here.)
2009

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